[Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

[Erik Moeller]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> We provide a dump of the September 11 wiki's contents here:
> <http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backups-of-old-wikis.html>. Memorial sites,
> while depressing and touching, are completely outside the scope of
> Wikimedia's mission. I don't believe Wikimedia has an obligation, moral
> or otherwise, to host this content in an Internet searchable format in
> perpetuity. Anyone, including non-profits and government organizations,
> can use the dump we provide as they see fit. Deciding to host this site
> again would be a mistake and one that we happen to have already made once.

+1. sep11.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo already redirects to the IA copy, as
well. Anything else is a distraction and a waste of time, sorry.

Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation